netdev - [PATCH] net/mac80211: Use RCU_INIT

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:47:02 +0530
From:	Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@...il.com>
To:	linville@...driver.com, johannes@...solutions.net,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/mac80211: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in ibss.c

This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure       
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. 
And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. 
So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@...il.com>
---
 net/mac80211/ibss.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index e458ca0..cb262c4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_sta_join_ibss(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
 	presp = rcu_dereference_protected(ifibss->presp,
 					  lockdep_is_held(&sdata->wdev.mtx));
-	rcu_assign_pointer(ifibss->presp, NULL);
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(ifibss->presp, NULL);
 	if (presp)
 		kfree_rcu(presp, rcu_head);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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